Dalston Eastern Curve Garden, Dalston

Slip behind the green wooden entrance of Dalston Eastern Curve Garden and, in an instant, the grime and noise of the Kingsland Road is magicked away to be replaced by the fairy-lit pastoral glow of the very best kind of summer wedding reception.

Between the trees can be heard the gentle chatter of other visitors enjoying drinks from the on-site cafe or tucking into picnics, but leaning back on the white-painted seats it feels like this community garden is all yours.

Like that? Try this: Nearby Abney Park is the northeast outpost of London’s Magnificent Seven: picturesque suburban cemeteries built in the 1830s and 1840s to ease overcrowding in parish burial grounds.

Beavertown Brewery, Tottenham

Thanks to its fruity and powerfully hopped American-style IPAs, and its can designs by Nick Dwyer inspired by 1950s sci-fi comic books, Beavertown Brewery has become the purveyor of London’s most stylish tipples.

They’re never better — or cheaper — than from the source — in the brewery’s on-site taproom in an industrial park in unfashionable Tottenham Hale.

It’s the perfect diversion on the journey to or from Stansted Airport (but with ABVs up to 9.1%, there’s a risk of missing that plane).

While Bloomsbury Lanes or Lucky Voice offer chichi bowling and karaoke options in central London, Rowans has been offering no-nonsense bowling, karaoke, ping pong, pool, great music and bad dancing to an up-for-it local crowd since the 1990s.

BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Neasden

BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, better known as Neasden Temple, was built in the 1990s from Italian Carrara marble and Bulgarian limestone, shipped to India and then hand-carved by a team of 1,526 sculptors.

The stonework was then assembled in an unassuming corner of northwest London, just around the corner from IKEA.

At the time of construction, it was the largest Hindu temple outside of India.

Like that? Try this: The west London neighborhood of Southall, whose large South Asian population has earned it the nickname Little India.

Southall Broadway has shops selling everything from food, spices, clothes to jewelry, as well as great restaurants.

Trinity Buoy Wharf, Docklands

For those who like their Instagram moments post-industrial, there’s this hip arts quarter.

Sitting just across the river from the O2 Arena — one of London’s biggest concert venues — it’s home to studios, galleries, street art, a period-perfect 1940s-style American diner and London’s only lighthouse.

Like that? Try this:The Prospect of Whitby, London’s oldest riverside pub and another of the city’s nautical landmarks. Look out for the gibbet and hangman’s noose hanging from the Thameside balcony.

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins’s lifesize sculptures of prehistoric animals were — in 1854, five years before Darwin’s “The Origin of Species” — based on the latest advances in the new science of paleontology.

These days, we’d call these wonky beasts a good first effort.

Like that? Try this: The family-friendly Horniman Museum, with its on-site petting zoo and eccentric collection of exhibits, including a preposterously over-stuffed walrus.

King Henry’s Mound, Richmond

Richmond Park is the largest of London’s eight Royal Parks and is famously home to herds of Red and Fallow deer.

But hidden away in Pembroke Lodge Gardens is a little hill offering a tree-lined view all the way to St. Paul’s Cathedral, 10 miles to the east.

This is one of London’s eight “protected views” of St Paul’s, carefully tended by generations of gardeners and kept clear by building legislation that ensures no new constructions get in the way.

Like that? Try this: Harrow View Point. While there are plenty of incredible vantage points in the city, from Primrose Hill to Alexandra Palace, for a hillside amble all to yourself in a quiet corner of northwest London, there’s Harrow View Point in Old Redding.

Eltham Palace, Eltham

“Wolf Hall” meets “The Great Gatsby” at Eltham Palace, the medieval royal estate where King Henry VIII spent his boyhood and whose interiors were given an art deco makeover in 1933 by textile millionaire Stephen Courtauld and his wife, Virginia.

The supremely elegant interiors — including the curved entrance hall by Swedish designer Rolf Engstromer — were cutting-edge design and came with all the latest mod cons, but the Great Hall, 14th-century exterior and sumptuous grounds were all restored by the Courtaulds to their original glory.

Like that? Try this: 2 Willow Road, a Modernist family home designed by architect Ernö Goldfinger in 1939 and occupied by him and his family for more than 40 years.

And yes, he was the inspiration for the Bond villain Auric Goldfinger.